Name this car....

[Rona!d]

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Good news: Roofer arrived and makes an emergency repair before he makes a complete new roof for the garage in early spring (we already had planned before).

I wouldn´t want to participate but Hektors car was too inviting after Wilson and later I had a bad start (the Crossley guess was a waste of thinking as Hektor said "not island"). Stoewer made a real old days supercar, the D7 with an 11ltr. engine, 120 hp, 160 km/h, would be an interesting riddle car 😉

So if anybody wants to jump in, feel free. Otherwise I´ll grab in my archive this night.

[stuny]

I know that Opel made sewing machines before cars, but they did not cease production in 1945.

[wlaidlaw]

When Ronald gave the hint made in an island, the only car I could think of that met that criterion was the Thomond made in Ireland in the 1920's and 30's but I think they only made 4 of them and none may now survive. It was unlikely that any had reached Australia. 

Wilson

[Rona!d]

vor 12 Minuten schrieb wlaidlaw:

When Ronald gave the hint made in an island, the only car I could think of that met that criterion was the Thomond made in Ireland in the 1920's and 30's but I think they only made 4 of them and none may now survive. It was unlikely that any had reached Australia. 

Wilson

Wilson, there are larger "islands" to consider 😉

[willeica]

23 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

When Ronald gave the hint made in an island, the only car I could think of that met that criterion was the Thomond made in Ireland in the 1920's and 30's but I think they only made 4 of them and none may now survive. It was unlikely that any had reached Australia. 

Wilson

Thanks for the mention of the Thomond, Wilson. There is a bigger list than I expected here.

https://www.allianz.ie/blog/your-car/made-in-ireland.html

One thing is certain, this is definitely not a DeLorean.  

The full list of companies which manufactured here in Ireland, as opposed to making 'Irish Cars',  is in this book.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motor-Assembly-Ireland-Irish-Transport/dp/1902773357/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=62019392847&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt9z-BRBCEiwA_bWv-G9HuYj-cUqArxLuX0uzWg82ubXNJsxMNpIkhhnbpSSVJnzkT5Ki1xoCSuoQAvD_BwE&hvadid=291393955628&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1007850&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=8926710102763910198&hvtargid=kwd-438849383020&hydadcr=8466_1790190&keywords=motor+assembly+in+ireland&qid=1607955961&sr=8-1&tag=googiehydra-21

Bob Montgomery, who wrote this, has produced a most wonderful series of books on the history of motoring and motor sport here in Ireland. You would enjoy anything that he has written. I spent some wonderful hours with him a few years ago in the Royal Irish Automobile Club researching the Irish Grand Prix races of the late 1920s and early 1930s. My father attended those races and he saw Birkin and Caracciola racing and Prince Bira later on.

For my own part I am always looking for Irish made cameras and lenses. Apart from my Dublin made Grubb brass lenses from the 19th Century, I have  a couple of Corfields that were made in Ballymoney, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland in the early 1960s before Guinness, who were a shareholder, had the operation closed down. I also have some Irish name plates and engravings on cameras. I have one, which is over 100 years old, with a Limerick dealer's nameplate, but I think it was an imported camera. The guy who sold it to me thought that it might have been made in Dublin, but I have been unable to have that confirmed.

Great Britain is an island too, of course. 

William

[John Z. Goriup]

4 hours ago, Rona!d said:

Good news: Roofer arrived and makes an emergency repair before he makes a complete new roof for the garage in early spring (we already had planned before).

I wouldn´t want to participate but Hektors car was too inviting after Wilson and later I had a bad start (the Crossley guess was a waste of thinking as Hektor said "not island"). Stoewer made a real old days supercar, the D7 with an 11ltr. engine, 120 hp, 160 km/h, would be an interesting riddle car 😉

So if anybody wants to jump in, feel free. Otherwise I´ll grab in my archive this night.

I'd like to take a crack at it.........I suppose my submission may be considered somewhat exotic (depending on your interpretation of that term as it applies to the automotive world), several hundred of these were manufactured over the course of close to a decade, they are highly valued and much sought after today, and most importantly for our purpose, they were exported, used & seen world-wide.

As always, make and model, please.

JZG

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[AZach]

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The lamp assembly looks like Mercedes-Benz 300 “Adenauer” from 50’s.

[wlaidlaw]

3 hours ago, Rona!d said:

Wilson, there are larger "islands" to consider 😉

Hector had already said it was not UK and I consider Australia as a continent rather than an island. In the 1920's, New Zealand mostly made British cars from knock down kits, albeit with a local flavour. The only other "island" I can think of, which had a car manufacturing base in the 1920's was Rhode Island, which isn't an island at all 

Wilson

 

 

[wlaidlaw]

Could John's mystery car be a Graham-Paige? 

Wilson

[John Z. Goriup]

Wilson, no, not a Graham-Paige.

AZach, obviously too easy...........but you're not100% correct. Not to be pedantic about this, but only the sedans were known as 'Adenauer' models, since he was provided a few by the factory after the introduction of the 300 S series when they rebuilt their factory and resumed post-war production. The 300S series was also manufactured in the form of a Cabriolet, i'e. with a folding top with landau bars and the top formed a huge 'collar' at the rear of the passenger compartment, and as a 'Roadster' where the top essentialy disappeared when open) and the sublime Coupe.

Thei 300S series( W198 ) was made from '51 to about '58 with major improvements coming in 1955 in the suspension and engine - the introduction of the 'Einspritzer' intake tract.

The slice of the car I featured is actually a later model 300Sc Roadster, a '57 to be exact; if it would have been necssary to post another clue, I had another image prepared showing that the car is indeed a convertible model.

You're turn

JZG

 

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[John Z. Goriup]

..........and a rear / side view.

If I ever earn another turn, I promise it'll be a lot more difficult.

JZG

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[Michael Hiles]

Beautiful car. Worthy comparator to anything else available at the time.

[AZach]

Thanks, because of the “non-Adenauer” colour I was hesitant, but anyway here another cabrio utility vehicle

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[Rona!d]

It´s written on the box, so I would think of an Opel GLASScada, sorry ... Cascada.

[AZach]

Thanks, but not an Opel.

[Rona!d]

Then it´s an Audi A5 cabrio.

[AZach]

Then You are probably right:

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[Rona!d]

And here the next one. Maker, model and if possible year of made.

 

 

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[wlaidlaw]

1964 Corvette Sting Ray? 

Wilson

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[Rona!d]

vor einer Stunde schrieb wlaidlaw:

1964 Corvette Sting Ray? 

Wilson

Sorry Wilson, not a Corvette.